I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then ...
ANGUS WILSON "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
AGATHA CHRISTIE He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.
Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.
WM SHAKESPEARE Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just...
BILL BRYSON Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shake...
TOM HIDDLESTON In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.
ANDREW MOTION I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly writt...
MEGAN HART I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Health that snuffs the morning air.
JAMES GRAINGER In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER As Lillian walked into the orangery, she was suffused in the scent of... oranges. But lemons, bays, ...
LISA KLEYPAS I figure I borrow the Lord's air every morning. It was the least I could do.
JEFF HARRISON If you close your eyes in a park you will realise that everything you see around is at the same time...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world whil...
ALEXANDER SMITH O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE what ho, apothecary!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,
And...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VII...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Her thoughts came to life in the stillness of the wood, nurtured by the air and the scent and the vi...
MEAGAN SPOONER This night methinks is but the daylight sick. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And for you all to go on the air this morning and make such a charge is irresponsible.
SCOTT MCCLELLAN William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY Once again I felt light-headed, but this time it wasn't from the scent of lilacs; it was from the sc...
PETER DAVID The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great that I thought I wa...
JACK KEROUAC The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I w...
JACK KEROUAC Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL He is my soul mate, my fresh air, the reason I look forward to getting up every morning.
TABITHA SUZUMA O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love, that do not show their love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
RHONDA BYRNE But is there nothing else,
That we may do but only walk? Methinks
Brothers and sisters lawful...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, bec...
HAROLD BLOOM A world where the sky is cloaked in perpetual overcast, the scent of woodsmoke is always in the air,...
IAN ROGERS England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made Englan...
VICTOR HUGO Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER Pour on, I will endure.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The fairest things have fleetest end,/ Their scent survives their close:/ But the rose's scent is bi...
EDWARD THOMAS The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an
ordinary man has.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...
JUDITH VIORST I must to the barber's, mounsieur; for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART The violets whisper from the shade
Which their own leaves have made:
Men scent our fragrance o...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI The smell of tobacco usually reminded Mirabelle of being a child - coming downstairs in the morning ...
SARA SHERIDAN Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep,...
JOHN MILTON Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER That warm fresh air, the soft breeze hitting your skin, the smells that send you to another place, s...
VERONIQUE MATHIEU What a strange thing it is to wake up to a milk-white overcast June morning! The sun is hidden by a ...
VERA NAZARIAN I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of f...
ALAN RICKMAN Something in the air this morning made me feel like flying. . . "
Spring Flight
EILEEN GRANFORS Bright as the day and as the morning fair, Such Cloe is, & common as the air.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under h...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I don't know how long I've got to address the soft opponent thing. But Arizona is not soft.
LORENZO ROMAR Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER I believed I could identify the scent of the sky as I stood there, a blue menthol fragrance similar ...
ANNE SPOLLEN Put off the scent
PROVERB I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled fresh, freshly washed or of fresh laundry or ...
BERNHARD SCHLINK Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER The air between them was electric, the scent of his aftershave was intoxicating and she could feel t...
KASSANDRA CROSS If you woke up this morning, Looked in the mirror,
walked outside to pick up the paper, smelled
the ...
GEORGE REX The scent of growth, quiet and green, hung heavy in the air. I heard everything. I saw everything. I...
MOLLY HARPER I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could ...
THOMAS BOWDLER Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay,
sweet hay, hath no fellow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.
AYA CASH I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that ...
PRINCE WILLIAM It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II